Category: Just Too Weird / Funny
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If you are a fan of the highly dysfunctional (now defunct) TV series Arrested Development, as I am, you will appreciate this interview with "Buster" (Tony Hale). While Gob is still my all-time favorite Bluth, Buster has to rank a close second. Reading this interview it’s cool to hear his views on the Christian faith…
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Well, I’m sad to say our conference here in Thailand has been pestered by an epidemic-like case of the stomach bug. It’s being slated as the Suan Bua "belly" and Christa and I fell victim to the nasty virus earlier today. Thankfully (so far) our symptoms have not included the vomiting, but we could have…
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If you are a coffee drinker it sounds like a good thing, doesn’t it? Being showered in lattes. But only if you are speaking figuratively instead of literally. While Anna and Christa were going to Anna’s dentist appointment this morning, Sarah and I were set loose on the streets of Chiang Mai. I chose to…
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Bought some chips the other day at the local convenience store… Yeah, that’s right, Lonely God potato chips (or really they were more like cheese puffs). I think I’m going to try and market these at Christian bookstores in America. My slogan would be something like this: Have you had your quiet time today?Do you…
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Here’s an article about this poor guy in Florida who was just minding his own business (smoking crack!) when an alligator attacked him. Ouch. My favorite quote from the article: "We were pretty much playing tug-of-war." (I.e. the policeman who arrived at the scene vs. the alligator. Guess who played the part of the rope?)…
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Scene 1: Our company had a meeting yesterday in which we talked about what it means to go through a transition. Specifically we talked about the various emotional stages (or patterns) that can be observed when people are experiencing transition. We had a nice hand-out diagram and a nice "exercise" to explore these various stages.…
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When your wife is away you begin to realize how skilled (or unskilled?) you are at taking care of your kids. You also realize the amount of confidence that your closest friends and neighbors have in your parenting skills… Needless to say I’ve had a lot of offers from friends here to "watch the girls"…
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Buying bread from a man in BrusselsHe was six foot four and full of musclesI said, "Do you speak-a my language?"He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwichAnd he said,"I come from a land down underWhere beer does flow and men chunderCan’t you hear, can’t you hear the thunder?You better run, you better take…
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Welcome to my first ever "Chinglish" Fry Daze post! We’ll see if I can get a sample of prime "Chinglish" each week to post on Fridays for your reading enjoyment. The London Telegraph reports that there is campaign in Beijing to wipe-out Chinglish there as it is "a blight on China’s modernizing pretensions". Their goal…
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Today is Friday the 13th. Are you superstitious? I’m not (but if I saw this guy in a dark alley I wouldn’t pause to consider whether or not I believed he would be benevolent…) Just to prove how un-superstitious I am today I actually tried to break a few mirrors, walk under a few ladders,…
yeti speak... 